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Devin Baker
@devinbaker.eth
It's interesting that PG's "founder mode" has caught such fire Usually, I find myself really obsessed with these tech think-pieces that others love, but this one seems to miss me I wonder why that is? Perhaps because it's a piece of "talking about the thing" rather than just "doing the thing"? What do you think?
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Devin Baker
@devinbaker.eth
Some more thoughts: I think PG's essay focuses more on naming a thing thing that people struggle with and less about teaching us how to do a thing He says "There are as far as I know no books specifically about founder mode," but I would argue that founder mode at its best is good leadership It's about connecting with the ~humans~ on the team, rather than running a playbook of managing an ~organizational system~ It's about leadership --- Footnote 3 was the most resonant part of the essay for me My bet is that the ones that best embody the good parts of what PG is talking about do it through action, not talk And that the ones that embody the worst parts do it through talk, not action
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Tudor 🟣🟡 Engineer to fCTO
@tudorizer
It’s a different angle to what we used to call “hacker mode” at boto.io . Essentially an early stage, where experiments are crucial and anything-goes until PMF is found. That’s my take, at least.
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Gregarious
@gregarious
Definitely been seeing all the chatter about it. For most founders, it feels so obvious that I think it's less of a surprise or "insight" as we might expect from PG's usual manner of plainly stating something we might otherwise miss.
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bubur
@bubur
I think it's because the "founder mode" concept is more relatable to those who've been in the trenches, building and innovating, rather than just reading about it.
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